It was at times incredibly slow and even poorly edited, and I've never understood the appeal of Renee Zelwegger.

November 07, 2008 read full article

Ed Harris does it better than anybody.

November 07, 2008 read full article

Dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Parker's novel, proves mostly engaging.

October 03, 2008 read full article

Harris co-wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is filled with humor, action and clever turns.

October 03, 2008 read full article

There's a refreshing vein of understated humor running throughout the production. It's neither forced nor unnatural and it keeps things from becoming too somber, even when the bullets start flying.

October 03, 2008 read full article

From its first, mournful brass theme, Ed Harris's Appaloosa nails the look and feel of a classic Western. This is an old-style, laconically macho, six-shooting horse opera made with an obvious and unapologetic love of the genre.

October 03, 2008 read full article

After Appaloosa establishes its slightly modern characters in a traditional setting, it has nowhere to go but toward the completely expected.

October 03, 2008 read full article

Harris directs with a steady hand and sharp eye for the best in his fellow actors.

October 03, 2008 read full article

Mortensen should certainly do another western, soon. Preferably he should do one with a real sense of danger to go along with all the neat, tidy, highfalutin' honor and decency.

October 03, 2008 read full article

In its own quiet way it delivers the goods.

October 03, 2008 read full article

A warmly made, slightly offbeat movie about friendly devotion. It also happens to be a western, and every man in it is grizzled or wizened or both.

October 03, 2008 read full article

Filled with dusty light, craggy facial features and broad landscapes, it's a solid story that honors the traditions of the genre as it reworks them.

October 03, 2008 read full article

A fine dramatic comedy with fresh characters, witty dialogue and a keen interest in how relationships must have developed among frontier folks, tyrannical ranchers, no-nonsense lawmen and -- oh, yes -- the complicated women on that frontier.

October 03, 2008 read full article

Appaloosa is one of those movies that creeps up on you after the fact.

October 02, 2008 read full article

Appaloosa is an archetypal western with touches of the modern buddy comedy. Though it falls short of these classics, it is a little bit Destry Rides Again and a little bit more Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

October 02, 2008 read full article

What is seductive about Appaloosa is its easygoing rhythm.

October 02, 2008 read full article

Ambition is a great quality in a filmmaker, especially when it's realized. Yet there is something to be said for just telling a story, and with Appaloosa, Harris does a fine job of it.

October 02, 2008 read full article

October 02, 2008 read full article

Ed Harris, working from a Robert Parker novel, has crafted a meticulously detailed, newfangled old-fashioned morality tale of hard men who go soft when a woman comes between them.

October 01, 2008 read full article

In all, Appaloosa is good as far as it goes -- everything in it feels true -- but I wish that Harris had pushed his ideas further.

September 22, 2008 read full article